The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

Humor is only one layer that a writer must consider. To produce good writing you need to simultaneously balance about… oh, eighteen layers of technique at the same time. Luckily, most of this happens as an automatic process.

Your Honest-to-God Guide to STDs

"By wit and by grit—and by wig—Rojas created one of the most singular films, working out of his parents' living room in the early 1990s. With just a camcorder and costumes, playing every role— man, woman, and child—he shot and edited a four-hour, 52-scene production without anyone else's assistance. In it, Rojas talks to himself; he shoots himself; he even kisses himself in the film's most incredible example of trick photography."

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"Like many aspects of Japanese society, rental relatives are often explained with reference to the binary of honne and tatemae, or genuine individual feelings and societal expectations. Authenticity and consistency aren’t necessarily valued for their own sake, and the concealment of authentic honne behind conventional tatemae is often construed as an act of unselfishness and sociability, rather than of deception or hypocrisy."

Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

“Euthanasia” involves the physician ending a patient’s life, whereas “physician-assisted death” or “medical aid in dying” involves a doctor prescribing lethal drugs for a patient to end their own life. To date, five countries have legalized euthanasia.

Rise of the DIY Death Machines

That's the thing about flossing. It's a common sense thing to do. If you don't floss, you only clean 60 percent of your teeth's surfaces. Imagine you left 40 percent of your body unshowered. Even if there were a couple articles circulating around Twitter about how that might be OK, wouldn't you still feel gross about your hygiene?

I&#039;m A Dentist. We Have To Talk About Flossing.

The success of memes like the alt-right’s Pepe the Frog and ISIS’s one-finger salute points to political memes’ probable future function: spreading propaganda. They’re visual, and pictures often skip right over reason and punch your brain right in the truth center.

No, Books Are NOT &#039;the New Business Card&#039;

Cypherpunks believe that privacy is a fundamental human right, including privacy from governments. They understand that the weakening of a system's security for any reason, including access by "trusted authorities", makes the system insecure for everyone who uses it.

Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks

When we lie, it's not always a conscious or rational choice. We want to lie and we want to benefit from our lying, but we want to be able to look in the mirror and see ourselves as good, honest people.

The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches

The benefits of having a long-term goal are that it’s both motivating and it primes you to look for opportunities. The downside, though, is that it isn’t very specific. It’s hard to take action on. Hence, the need for a North Star ⭐️

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Tim Ferriss: If You&#039;re Not Happy With What You Have, You Might Never Be Happy

There are plenty of useful ways to make a name for yourself in your field. But at a foundational level, you need to be viewed as credible, you need to share your ideas publicly so others can see your expertise for themselves, and you need to have a network that’s eager to spread the word.